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...space case could see that at this tender point in their gestation, videos are a hyper hybrid of commercials, cartoons, concerts and selected short subjects. Record executives look for the high road but follow the hard line. "Rock video is terrific," says Gil Friesen, president of A & M Records, "but it is the music itself that creates the excitement, whether the music goes out over MTV or radio. Music is the ultimate power." John Kalodner of Geffen Records agrees: "Rock video isn't the art form. Rock video markets the art form...
...stirring interest. Every major record label now has its own in-house video department. Video budgets are getting to be as hotly negotiated as salary increases whenever a performer's contract comes up for renewal. "A video indicates to an artist a level of acceptance and prestige," says Gil Friesen. Says Len Epand, general manager of Polygram Records' video division: "Videos are collectible and deserve to be purchasable. Right now music video is paid for with marketing funds. I'd like to see video financed through sales of the clips themselves...
...Steinkuhler is the tobacco-spitting image of "Herby Husker," Nebraska's mascot in bib overalls. Pro-football scouts are afraid to say how good he is, because he may be the best offensive lineman they have ever seen. "In Steinkuhler, Fryar and Rozier," says Dallas Cowboy personnel man Gil Brandt, "Nebraska might have three players drafted in the first ten." That such a player could come out of Burr (pop. 101 and getting smaller-"I don't look for it to last much longer," Steinkuhler sighs) is more than farfetched. When the All-America teams are announced, Burr...
Nobody knows that better than Cross tailback Gil Fenerty. Against Columbia last week, Fenerty set six Holy Cross records, broke a New England record, tied three New England records and tied three Division I-AA records. All he had done was run 337 yards on just 18 carries...
...have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all plays that the unbeaten Crusaders may fall dead, and that the Gil Fenerty may be discharged of yards as violently as hasty passes fir'd doth hurry from Peter Muldoon's fatal cannon...